Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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